Jewish Frontiers

Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-349-38797-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

In this collection of new essays, Sander Gilman muses on Jewish memory and representation throughout the twentieth-century. Bringing together the worlds of literature, medicine, and popular culture in his characteristic ways, Gilman looks at new, post-diasporic ways of understanding the limits of Jewish identity. Topics include the development of the genre of Holocaust comedy, the imagination of the relationship of the body, disease, and identity, and the place of Jews in today's multicultural society.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilman, S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Frontier as a Model for Jewish History REPRESENTING THE SHOAH The First Comic Film about the Shoah: Jurek Becker and Cultural Opposition within the GDR Is Life Beautiful? Can the Shoah Be Funny?: On the Boundary Between Acceptable and Unacceptable Representation of the Holocaust DISEASES AND BOUNDARIES A Dream of Jewishness on the Frontier: Kafka's Tumor and 'The Country Doctor' Private Knowledge: Jewish Illnesses and the Process of Identity Formation A French Frontier: Proust's Nose JEWISH BODIES AND HISTORY TODAY 'We're not Jews': Imagining Jewish History and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary Multicultural Literature

Über Autor(innen)

SANDER L. GILMAN is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is one of the foremost critics of literature and Jewish culture.